weregild

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Definition von weregild im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

In Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law, a reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death or other serious crimes

{n} a compensation in money or goods for homicide

The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin

It was paid by the murderer

Silbentrennung

were·gild

Etymologie

() Middle English wergeld, from Old English ƿergeld, compound of ƿer (“man”), + geld (“payment”).